Charlottenhof Palace and its surrounding park are located in the Brandenburger Vorstadt district of Potsdam's Westliche Vorstädte borough.

The Crown Prince charged the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel with the remodeling of an already existing farm house and the project was completed at low cost from 1826 through 1829.

In the end, Schinkel, with the help of his student Ludwig Persius, built a small Neoclassical palace on the foundations of the old farm house in the image of a Roman villa.

The blue and white theme is continued throughout on the palace's window shutters, it seems, in deference to the Bavarian heritage of then crown princess Elisabeth.

He completely recreated the originally flat and partly marshy area into an English garden with trees, lawn and water features.